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BASEBALL; Orioles Defeat Athletics on 2 Homers by Ripken

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Cal Ripken's second home run of the game led off the ninth inning today as Baltimore beat Oakland by 3-2 in the Orioles' first victory over the Athletics in nine games.

Baltimore also became the first team in six games to score more than one run against Oakland.

Ripken, who tied the score at 2-2 with a bases-empty homer in the sixth inning, connected on Gene Nelson's first pitch in the ninth for his sixth home run of the season.

Mark Williamson (2-1) got the victory. Gregg Olson earned his seventh save. Jose Canseco's ninth homer, a two-run shot, gave Oakland a 2-1 lead in the fifth. Carney Lansford singled with two outs and Canseco hit a 1-2 pitch from the Baltimore starter, Dave Johnson, over the 375-foot sign in left-center field.

Johnson left after six and a third innings. He gave up eight hits and two walks and struck out a career-high five.

Cleveland and Texas were to begin playing their regularly scheduled game about a half-hour later.

At the time that Friday night's game was stopped, Cleveland had just scored twice in the top of the sixth to tie the score at 4-4. When the game resumed yesterday, Sandy Alomar singled with one out, stole second, and scored on Fermin's single.

CHICAGO (AP) - Melido Perez held Kansas City to three singles over eight and two-thirds innings, losing a shutout on three unearned runs without a hit.

Carlos Martinez tripled home two runs during a five-run third, and Ivan Calderon had four singles, the fifth four-hit game of his career. Richard Dotson (0-3), the loser, gave up nine hits and five runs in two and two-thirds innings.

Giants 6, Phillies 2

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Matt Williams and Will Clark hit three-run homers and Scott Garrelts won his first game of the season as San Francisco won.

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Garrelts (1-3), the National League's leader in earned run average in 1989, allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. He struck out one and walked two. Atlee Hammaker pitched two and two-thirds scoreless innings before Jeff Brantley finished for his third save.

Garrelts' e.r.a. is 5.60, more than three runs a game higher than last year's league-leading figure.

Pirates 3, Astros 1

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Neal Heaton became the first Pittsburgh pitcher in 61 years to win his first six starts as the streaking Pirates got their seventh victory in eight games.

Heaton allowed one unearned run and four hits over seven innings. The last Pirate to win his first six starts was Burleigh Grimes, who won his first 10 in 1929.

Scott Ruskin pitched the eighth and Ted Power got the last three outs for his third save.

Heaton, 6-7 in 1989, has won 11 consecutive decisions since last July 28 after losing 17 of his previous 21 with the Pirates and the Montreal Expos. Heaton has a 1.57 earned run average in 24 appearances, 12 of them starts, during his streak.

Cubs 4, Reds 2

CINCINNATI (AP) - Tom Browning lost his no-hitter in the seventh inning, then lost the game on Doug Dascenzo's three-run double.

Mike Bielecki (2-3) left after allowing Mariano Duncan's leadoff single in the ninth. Mitch Williams allowed a single to Barry Larkin but got Todd Benzinger to hit into a double play. Paul O'Neill then spoiled the shutout with a two-run homer before Williams struck out Billy Hatcher to end the game and earn his seventh save.

Bielecki struck out three, walked one and got the hit that finished Browning.

Browning (3-3) did not give up a hit until Shawon Dunston led off the seventh with a soft single to right.

A version of this article appears in print on May 13, 1990, on Page 8008003 of the National edition with the headline: BASEBALL; Orioles Defeat Athletics on 2 Homers by Ripken. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe